CREATIVE THOUGHTS

"An idea is salvation by imagination".
---Frank Lloyd Wright

"Creativity comes from trust.  Trust your instincts".
---Rita Mae Brown

"Everyone has talent.  What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads".
---Erica Jong

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong".
---Joseph Chilton Pearce

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug".
---Mark Twain

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure".
---Samuel Johnson

"I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none".
---Ben Shahn

"If an artist sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him".
---Caspar David Friedrich

"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts, and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul".
---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing".
---Meister Eckhart

Image above, UNTITLED by Parker Kaufman.  Composition, cardstock, pastels, and computer enanced images, 8.5 x 11 inches.